An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists Part 21

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard _this_, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 _What_ and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, _they_ are spirit, and _they_ are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that _time_ many of his disciples went back,(181) and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe, and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living G.o.d.

70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?(182) 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot _the son_ of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

CH. VII.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Part V. From Our Lord's Third Pa.s.sover, Until His Final Departure From Galilee, At The Festival Of Tabernacles.

TIME. _Six months_.

-- 67. Our Lord justifies his Disciples for eating with unwashen hands.

Pharisaic traditions. _Capernaum_.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. XV. 1-20. CH. VII. 1-23.

Then came to Jesus scribes and Then came together unto him Pharisees, which were of the Pharisees, and certain of Jerusalem, saying, the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

2 Why do thy disciples 2 And when they saw some of transgress the tradition of his disciples eat bread with the elders?(183) for they wash defiled (that is to say, with not their hands when they eat unwashen) hands, they found bread. fault.

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash _their_ hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

4 And _when they come_ from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the was.h.i.+ng of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and tables.(184) 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

3 But he answered and said 6 He answered and said unto unto them, Why do ye also them, Well hath Esaias transgress the commandment of prophesied of you hypocrites, G.o.d by your tradition? as it is written, This people honoureth me with _their_ lips, but their heart is far from me.

4 For G.o.d commanded,(185) 7 Howbeit, in vain do they saying, Honour thy father and wors.h.i.+p me, teaching _for_ mother: and, He that curseth doctrines the commandments of father or mother, let him die men.

the death.

5 But ye say, Whosoever shall 8 For, laying aside the say to _his_ father or _his_ commandment of G.o.d, ye hold mother, _It is_ a gift, by the tradition of men, _as_ the whatsoever thou mightest be was.h.i.+ng of pots and cups: and profited by me; many other such like things ye do.

6 And honour not his father or 9 And he said unto them, Full his mother, _he shall be well ye reject the commandment free_. Thus ye made the of G.o.d, that ye may keep your commandment of G.o.d of none own tradition.

effect by your tradition.

7 _Ye_ hypocrites, well did 10 For Moses said, Honour thy Esaias prophesy of you,(186) father and thy mother; and, saying, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

8 This people draweth nigh 11 But ye say, If a man shall unto me with their mouth, and say to his father or mother, honoureth me with _their_ _It is_ Corban, that is to lips; but their heart is far say, a gift, by whatsoever from me. thou mightest be profited by me; _he shall be free_.

9 But in vain they do wors.h.i.+p 12 And ye suffer him no more me, teaching _for_ doctrines to do aught for his father or the commandments of men. his mother; 13 Making the word of G.o.d of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

10 And he called the 14 And when he had called all mult.i.tude, and said unto them, the people _unto him_, he said Hear, and understand: unto them, Hearken unto me every one _of you_, and understand.

11 Not that which goeth into 15 There is nothing from the mouth defileth a man; but without a man, that entering that which cometh out of the into him, can defile him: but mouth, this defileth a man. the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

12 Then came his disciples, 16 If any man have ears to and said unto him, Knowest hear, let him hear.

thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?

13 But he answered and said, Ever plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

15 Then answered Peter and 17 And when he was entered said unto him, Declare unto us into the house from the this parable. people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

16 And Jesus said, Are ye also 18 And he saith unto them, Are yet without understanding? ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, _it_ cannot defile him: 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

18 But those things which 19 Because it entereth not proceed out of the mouth come into his heart, but into the forth from the heart; and they belly, and goeth out into the defile the man. draught, purging all meats?

19 For out of the heart 20 And he said, That which proceed evil thoughts, cometh heart of the man, that murders, adulteries, defileth the man.

fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These _are the things_ 21 For from within, out of the which defile a man: but to eat heart of men, proceed evil with unwashen hands defileth thoughts, adulteries, not a man. fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

-- 68. The daughter of a Syrophenician woman is healed. _Region of Tyre and Sidon_.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. XV. 21-28. CH. VII. 24-30.

21 Then Jesus went thence, and 24 And from thence he arose, departed into the coasts of and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know _it_: but he could not be hid.

22 And behold, a woman of 25 For a _certain_ woman, Canaan came out of the same whose young daughter had an coasts, and cried unto him, unclean spirit, heard of him, saying, Have mercy on me, O and came and fell at his feet: Lord, _thou_ son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

23 But he answered her not a 26 (The woman was a Greek, a word. And his disciples came Syrophenician(187) by nation,) and besought him, saying, Send and she besought him that he her away; for she crieth after would cast forth the devil out us. of her daughter.

24 But he answered and said, I 27 But Jesus said unto her, am not sent but unto the lost Let the children first be sheep of the house of Israel. filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

25 Then came she and wors.h.i.+pped him, saying, Lord, help me.

26 But he answered and said, 28 And she answered and said It is not meet to take the unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the children's bread and to _cast dogs under the table eat of it_ to dogs. the children's crumbs.

27 And she said, Truth, Lord: 29 And he said unto her, For yet the dogs eat of the crumbs this saying, go thy way; the which fall from their master's devil is gone out of thy table. daughter.

28 Then Jesus answered and 30 And when she was come to said unto her, O woman, great her house, she found the devil _is_ thy faith: be it unto gone out, and her daughter thee even as thou wilt. And laid upon the bed.

her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

-- 69. A deaf and dumb man healed; also many others. Four thousand are fed.

_The Decapolis_.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. XV. 29-38. CH. VII. 31-37. CH. VIII. 1-9.

29 And Jesus departed from 31 And again departing from thence, and came nigh unto the the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, sea of Galilee; and went up he came unto the sea of into a mountain, and sat down Galilee, through the midst of there. the coasts of Decapolis.

30 And great mult.i.tudes came 32 And they bring unto him one unto him, having with them that was deaf, and had an _those that were_ lame, blind, impediment in his speech; and dumb, maimed, and many others, they beseech him to put his and cast them down at Jesus' hand upon him.

feet; and he healed them: 33 And he took him aside from the mult.i.tude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue: 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published _it_; 31 Insomuch that the mult.i.tude 37 And were beyond measure wondered, when they saw the astonished, saying, He hath dumb to speak, the maimed to done all things well; he be whole, the lame to walk, maketh both the deaf to hear, and the blind to see: and they and the dumb to speak.

glorified the G.o.d of Israel.

CH. VIII.

32 Then Jesus called his In those days the mult.i.tude disciples _unto him_, and being very great, and having said, I have compa.s.sion on the nothing to eat, Jesus called mult.i.tude, because they his disciples _unto him_, and continue with me now three saith unto them, days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

2 I have compa.s.sion on the mult.i.tude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: 3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

33 And his disciples say unto 4 And his disciples answered him, Whence should we have so him, From whence can a man much bread in the wilderness, satisfy these _men_ with bread as to fill so great a here in the wilderness?

mult.i.tude?

34 And Jesus saith unto them, 5 And he asked them, How many How many loaves have ye? And loaves have ye? And they said, they said, Seven, and a few Seven.

little fishes.